<div dir="ltr">FYI, <a href="http://yarrina.connect.com.au">yarrina.connect.com.au</a> also resolves and while <a href="http://uneeda.aarnet.edu.au">uneeda.aarnet.edu.au</a> is gone, <a href="http://uneeda.telstra.net">uneeda.telstra.net</a> resolves, as does <a href="http://jatz.telstra.net">jatz.telstra.net</a> and jatz,<a href="http://aarnet.edu.au">aarnet.edu.au</a> (the same host?), and none of the addresses have changed either! DNS is a very sticky thing, and the older list members can laugh at some of the naming conventions, except that the Telstra ones only make sense when they were AARNet names...<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Mmm, UUCP to connect, that brings back
memories! We (IEAust) used to bring up an ISDN connection on our
Firstclass BBS server to Connect in Melbourne at 6am and 6pm to
gateway through email and newsgroups. I seem to remember having
to blacklist the unimelb ftpmail gateway, as folks were running up
our ISDN bill quite painfully! Hmm, I note that warrane still
resolves!<br>
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Wow, I just realised I've had the same email address for 20
years! Though I do use that email address as a spamtrap to feed
our maia mailfilter now ;)<br>
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<div>Well I actually connected Connect at UM and I was still
working at the Uni for another year or more before I jumped
ship, and I don't recall them ever having an SU link (I think
this is where some confusion came from). The national network
was all ISDN Microlink-based initially and the Sydney node was
in Cisco, but it was UUCP relays initially until they got the
OK to route IP over 'dedicated' connections (ISDN and
'permanent' dialup).<br>
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<div>All of this was well before I joined Connect in early 1994
and around the time that the Interconnect (domestic dialup)
product was launched (I'm often incorrectly spoken of as a
founder - there were three active founders and I was employee
number 2).<br>
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There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex
or <a href="http://connect.com.au" target="_blank">connect.com.au</a>
were the first commercial *IP* providers in
Australia (circa 1992/1993) - as distinct from
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As I remember it when I connected Microplex Cisco AGS via
a Telecom Microlink to a T/A at 64k to the netblazer at
.SU Microplex connected to port 2. Port 1 was already
allocated and connected to <a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>.
(well the TA displayed CD) So to my mind <a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a> was first we were
second. However we only provided shell accounts for the
first few weeks before i wrote the shell scripts on the
SCO box that started slip sessions allocated IP's etc. So
im a bit unsure who sold the commercial IP accounts first.
It was within weeks of AARNET providing connections to the
first as they called them then "Affiliates" <br>
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Chris how long after you connected did you start selling.
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To my mind it was allays <a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>
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